XLVII. LEGUMINOS^E. 
580 
[. Erythrina, 
mens from Singapore (Hullett) were planted in waste ground near 
Tanglin post-office. Hab. Perak, Waterloo estate (Curtis); Gunong 
Malacca, Kinta (Kunstler). Penang (Wallich). Distrib. Indo- 
China and Malay islands. 
(6) E. rostrata Ridl. n. sp. 
Much-branched tree about 40 ft. tall. Young parts scurfy 
velvety. Leaves 9 in. long; petioles 3 to 4 in. long unarmed; 
leaflets thin, membranous, deltoid-ovate, terminal one with very 
broad cuneate base, apex acuminate, sub-acute, 5 in. long and as 
wide at base; nerves 4 pairs, laterals smaller, base broad very 
inequilateral, rounded; petiolules *2 in. long, all glabrous, glands 
globose oblong. Calyx spathaceous, not bifid, split on upper 
side, *5 in. long (in fruit) ribbed. Pod stipitate; stipes 7 in. 
long; i-seeded at base above stipes, dilate fusiform, 2 in. long, 
1 in. through, tip long-beaked, beak 2 to 2*5 in. long, narrowed to 
the point. Seed one oblong, *5 in. long, pinkish red; hilum narrow. 
Hab. Pulau Adang seashore (Ridley). 
I have seen no other specimen like it from anywhere, and no petals. 
Nearest perhaps to E. indica, but with only one seed and both ends of the 
pod narrowed. 
19 . INDIGOFERA, Linn. 
Herbs and shrubs, more or less covered with appressed hairs and 
compound odd pinnate leaves. Flowers small numerous in axillary 
racemes. Calyx campanulate; teeth 5. Corolla standard ovate; 
keel straight not beaked, spurred at base. Stamens diadelphous; 
anthers apiculate. Ovary sessile; style short, incurved. Stigma 
pencillate. Pod linear-cylindric several-seeded. Species 250, 
tropics. 
Herb very hairy; pod hairy; flowers rather large, 
red .(1) I. hirsuta 
Half shrubby, nearly glabrous; pod glabrous. 
Calyx deep cleft ; flowers small ; pods narrow- 
straight 1 in. ; flowers yellow . . . (2) I. tinctoria 
Calyx short-toothed; pods ascending 3 in. long; 
flowers pink . . . . . . (3) L Finlaysoniana 
(1) I. hirsuta Linn. Sp. PL 751; Baker, in Hook. fil. F.B.I. 
ii. 98; Prain, Lc. 81. 
An annual branching brown-hairy herb, 1 to 3 ft. tall. Leaves 
2 to 5 in. long; rachis brown-hairy; leaflets elliptic to obovate, 
base narrowed, tip rounded, silky on both sides, i‘25 in. long, 
6 in. across; petiolules -i in. long. Racemes axillary, 7 to 8 in. 
long, elongating, hairy. Flowers very numerous, small. Calyx 
•15 in. long, densely pubescent. Corolla '2 in. long, red. Pod *5 
to 7 in. long, straight, densely pubescent, 6- to 8-seeded. Hab. 
Sandy seashores. Singapore, Tanjong Katong. Pahang, Pekan; 
Malacca, Pulau Besar. Penang (Curtis). Kelantan, Kamposa. 
Distrib. Tropical seashores. 
